5 COVID-19 Business Lessons for Landscaping Professionals
The COVID-19 impact on landscaping business owners has forced them to manage unprecedented times. Companies are being forced to rethink operations completely. The bright side is that certain emergency practices being implemented right now could actually be lessons used year-round to help strengthen your business. …
Startup GoMaterials Celebrates its Third Year in Business
April 30th, 2020 marks our third year in business, and we couldn’t be more excited. Building a startup isn’t easy, especially when the odds are against you. If 30% of startups fail within two years and even more so when the founders are under the …
Landscaping Safety Checklist to Protect Your Employees
According to data gathered in 2017 by the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, landscaping was listed among the top 11 occupations with the highest fatal injury count. The industry’s fatality rate of 16.9 per 100,000 workers is nearly five times that of all other workers, …
COVID-19 Guidelines for the Landscaping Industry
On March 11th, 2020, the World Health Organization (WHO) officially declared coronavirus disease (COVID-19) a pandemic. Therefore, you must prepare your business for the inevitable impact of COVID-19 on the landscaping industry. This blog post will help you with immediate solutions and guidelines to help …
How to Double Your Landscape Profits
If you read Part 1 of this blog series, then you already know that our landscaper friend John had used his own equation to calculate a 20% net profit for a backyard makeover job that he had completed. But, as it turned out, his calculation …
How Technology is Changing the Landscape Industry
According to an analysis by McKinsey & Company, the construction industry is one of the least digitized industries out there. Spending less than 1% of revenues on R&D, the sector has not yet fully embraced the idea that up-front investments into new digital technologies will …
Social Media 101 for Landscapers
We’re probably not the first ones to tell you that social media is an integral component of any landscaping business. Not only does it help you to engage with your clients, it also helps to grow your audience, humanize your company, increase your brand power, …
5 Productivity Tools for Landscapers
When it comes to running your business, we understand that you are most likely wearing many hats. You probably have tasks ranging from overseeing upcoming bids to managing your crews. So, we’ve decided to make a list of a few apps and services that can …
Top 10 Landscaping Questions and Answers We Get About GoMaterials
GoMaterials was founded by a landscaper for other landscapers and after years of dedicated experience in our business, we’ve continued to perfect our vision that changes the traditional and ineffective way of running things. We take out one of the most complicated and time-consuming parts …
Are Your Landscape Jobs Actually Profitable?
According to Lawn Care Millionaire, the typical net profit margin range varies from 5% to 20% in the lawn care and landscape industry. While some services will generate more profit than others, the real reason behind this variation is simple: people just don’t calculate their …
